We love working with children from 16 months through young adulthood!

Our Speech Language Pathologists treat the following areas:

  • Expressive and Receptive Language Delays
    • Some children are described as “late talkers” meaning they are delayed in vocabulary acquisition and the development of phrases and/or sentences.
    • Receptive language may also be delayed compared to their peers, when the child has difficulty comprehending speech, following directions, and answering questions.
  • Language Differences Related to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
    • Autistic children often show differences in their ability to understand language and speaking verbally/nonverbally.
    • Social language and play skills are also areas that can be targeted during speech therapy.
  • Articulation Disorders
    • An articulation disorder occurs when a child has difficulty producing certain sounds, which are typically mastered by their age. For example, a child that cannot yet produce their “f” sound at 4 years old is appropriate for articulation therapy.
  • Phonological Disorders
    • Similar to an articulation disorder, a phonological disorder focuses on a broad pattern of sounds, which are produced in error. This may look like final consonant deletions, voicing errors, fronting sounds, cluster simplifying, and more.
  • Social Communication Disorders
    • These pragmatic problems occur when a child has difficulty understanding and using the social rules for verbal and nonverbal communication.
  • Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)
    • CAS is a motor speech disorder, which occurs when the message from our brain does not tell our muscles how and when to move in order to make sounds. Often times these children have difficulty imitating speech and demonstrate vowel errors, prosody differences, and inconsistent consonant productions.
  • Fluency Disorders
    • Stuttering is the most common fluency disorder and occurs when there is an interruption in the flow of speech. We frequently notice syllable repetitions, blocking, and prolongations.
  • Feeding Disorders
    • Feeding therapy helps children who are either hyper or hypo sensitive to food/drinks. This may look like picky eating, gagging during intake, limited repetoire of foods, or pocketting/over-stuffing. We use a combination of the SOS (Sequential Oral Sensory), food chaining, and child-centered approaches,